8 Alternatives To Blogging For Students In The Classroom
What digital tools allow students to communicate in new ways, but with a clear sense of audience, purpose, and application of the writing process?
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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What Teaching Writing In The 21st Century Might Look Like
So I was looking through an old Animal Farm unit of mine when I found some notes I had written that sketch a basic outline for a “writing” unit (i.e., a unit designed primarily to produce a piece of writing that’s gone through the entire writing process) from my second year of teaching. Rough as…
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A Glimpse At The BYOD Device Of The Future
A BYOD device of the future will surprise us with unimaginable functionalities that lay far beyond mere extrapolation.
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4 Factors For BYOD Success In Schools
The four factors for BYOD success in schools include: student preference, teacher training, technical support, and a hybrid approach.
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Everything You’d Ever Want From Math Rap: All I Do Is Solve
Math rap is amazing. This video checks all the boxes you’d ever want, including awkwardness, pop rap, and forced math content.
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What Games Can Teach You About Your Students’ Needs
“A voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” That’s one very dry, but interesting way to describe play. The role of play in learning–given the chance–is incredible–both in intensity, duration, and impact everything else connected to the brain. The video below takes a look at play through the lens of games (along with a perhaps distracted two…
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Education 2020: A Vision Of Learning Decentralized & Free
I wrote (theorized? hypothesized? guessed?) the incredible ways technology will change education by the year 2028. It was based on current trends in education (e.g., eLearning and blended learning), society (e.g., economic downturns and population growth), and technology (faster, smaller, more connected everything). The following video from Masternewmedia.org has a similar goal of predicting the future of education…
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10 Reasons You Really Didn’t Need That Planning Period Anyway
The planning period is an interesting thing—time when you’re still very much on the clock and in demand, but might’ve mentally scheduled phone calls to parents, gathering data for your PLC, or finally grading all of those On-Demands. This may cause you to be a bit defensive of this time, avoiding other teachers, not answering…
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12 Powerful New Ideas For 21st Century Learning
How we learn is changing in response to a changing environment. 21st century learning is teeming with new ideas for learning pathways.
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Invisible Learning: An Archetype For A New Ecology Of Education
Invisible Learning: An Archetype For A New Ecology Of Education by TeachThought Staff In moving from traditional, tightly-bound direct instruction to something almost entirely self-directed and open, Invisible Learning almost sounds like a joke. It’s about as far from the current definition of “school” as you can get: Always-on learning–not scheduled into neat little categories, but…
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8 Characteristics Of Education 3.0
Education 1.0 (old way), 2.0 (current way), and 3.0 (future way). Education 1.0 was closed and industrial. 3.0 is open and ubiquitous.
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The Definition Of Global Learning
What Is The Definition Of Global Learning? Globalization. Definitely not a high-interest topic. For every person reading this quick preview, probably 18 more skimmed right past, busy trying to survive right here, right now. This makes sense. Even when it does get attention, it is often bursting with rhetoric and emotion—discussed in tones of enthusiasm…
